Dillon Michael : curriculum vitae

PROFESSOR MICHAEL DILLON

PERSONAL

NAME: Dillon, George Michael

BUSINESS ADDRESS:

Department of Politics and International Relations

University of Lancaster

Lancaster

LA1 4YL

UK

E-MAIL: mail

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Ph.D., Politics - University of Lancaster, 1976

M.A., Political Science - Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Canada, 1971

Post-Graduate Certificate in Education - Hull University, 1968

B.A. Hons., History/Politics - University of Liverpool, 1967

APPOINTMENTS

FULL-TIME

1997- Professor of Politics, University of Lancaster

1991-97 Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Lancaster

1974-91 Lecturer in Politics, University of Lancaster

VISITING

1992 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

1990 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

1989 Research Fellow, Department of International Relations and Peace Research Centre, The School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

1988 Visiting Professor, Centre for International Relations,

University of Missouri, U.S.A.

1984 & 86 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science,

Dalhousie University, Canada.

1980-87 Visiting Lecturer RNC Dartmouth and RNC Greenwich.

1977-78 Visiting Fellow, Forschungs Institut Der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Bonn

PART-TIME

1971-73 Research Assistant, UK Ministry of Defence, Official History British POLARIS Project

NATIONAL BODIES

2003 - Defence Scientific Advisory Council - Independent Member

EXTERNAL EXAMINING

1999- Essex, Kent, Bristol, London Universities Brunel University

1996-98 Manchester Metropolitan University

1997 Newcastle University

1997 University of Hawaii

1992-96 Staffordshire University

1990-92 Australian National University

1989-90 Hull University

KEY PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:

Governing Terror, Palgrave/Macmillan, Contracted. Forthcoming, 2006.

The Liberal Way of War, Routledge Contracted. Forthcoming 2006 (with Julian Reid)

Politics of Security. Towards a Political Philosphy of Continental Thought, London: Routledge, 1996.

The Falklands, Politics and War, London: Macmillan, 1989.

Dependence and Deterrence. Success and Civility in the Anglo-American Special Nuclear Relationship, Aldershot: Gower, 1983.

Canadian Naval Policy since World War II. A Decision Making Analysis, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie, 1971.

EDITED COLLECTIONS:

Security Bytes, Security and the Life Sciences in the 21st Century, for Cambridge University

Press, (with Cynthia Weber).

Foucault, Society and War, Palgrave/Macmillan, Contracted. Forthcoming, 2006 (with

Andrew Neal).

Complexity Networks and Resilience, Brookings Institute for Chatham House, 2005.

Culture and Governance, Journal of Cultural Research, vol.6, nos. 1-2, 2001 with Jeremy

Valentine.

America on America, Journal of Cultural Research, vol. 4, no. 4, 2000, (with Jonathan Munby

and George Lipsitz).

Violence Sacrifice and Desire, Cultural Values, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000, (with Paul Fletcher).

‘Tradition’, The British Society For Phenomenology Journal, Autumn, 1995.

The Political Subject of Violence, (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1993).

Defence Decision Making. A Comparative Analysis, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1995-2005

Political and Cultural Theory

«Real Time: The Instant of My Death,»

Theory and Event under review (with Paul Fletcher).

«A Passion for the (Im)possible. Jacques Ranciere’s Politics without Politics,»

European Journal of Political Theory, April, 2006.

«Network Society, Network-Centric Warfare and the State of Emergency,»

Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 19, no. 4, October, 2002.

«Intelligence Incarnate. Martial Corporeality in the Digital Age,»

Body and Society, vol. 9, no. 4, November, 2002.

«The Polemical Politics of Jacques Rancière: (De)void of Politics,»

Theory and Event, vol. 6, no. 4, 2002.

«Poetics, Poststructuralism and Complexity,»

Theory, Culture and Society. Vol.17, No.5, October, 2000.

«Another Justice,»

Political Theory, Vol.27, No.2, April 1999.

"Dosis",

The British Society for Phenomenology Journal, Autumn, 1995.

Politics and International Relations

«Virtual Security. A New Science of (Dis)order,»

Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 32, no. 3 May, 2004.

«Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security and War,»

Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol.30, no.1, 2001 (with Julian Reid).

«Complex Political Emergencies, Global Governance and Liberal Peace,"

Alternatives, vol. 25, no. 1, March, 2000 (with Julian Reid).

«Epilogue,»

Refuge, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Vol. 17, No. 6, December, 1998.

"Criminalising Social and Political Violence Internationally,"

Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol.27, No.3, December 1998.

"Sovereignty and Governmentality: From the Problematics of the New World Order to the Ethical Problematic of the World Order,"

Alternatives, vol. 20, 1995.

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

1995-2005

Political and Cultural Theory

«Derrida,»

Terrell Carver and and James Martin, (eds.), The Palgrave Guide to Continental Political Thought, London: Palgrave, 2005.

«The Governance of Security,»

Wendy Larner and William Walters, (eds.), Global Governmentalities, New York: Routledge, 2004.

"Oedipus Asphaleous: The Tragic Aporia of Freedom",

Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (eds.), Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

"Philosophy, Politics and (In)security",

Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash (eds.), Global Cultures, London: Sage, 1995.

"The End of Philosophy and the End of International Relations",

David Campbell\Michael Dillon (eds.), The Political Subject Of Violence, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Politics and International Relations

«Correlating Sovereign and Bio Power,»

Jenny Edkins, Veronique Pin-Fat and Michael Shapiro (eds.), Sovereign Lives, New York: Routledge, 2004.

«Global Liberal Governance, Resistance and War,»

Feargal Cocherane, Rosaleen Duffy, Jan Selby, (eds.), Global Governance, Conflict and ResistanceRoutledge, 2003.

«Culture, Governance and Global Biopolitics,»

Francois Debrix and Cindy Weber, (eds.), Rituals of Mediation, Minnesota University Press, 2002.

"The Scandal of the Refugee,"

David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro (eds.) Global Ethics, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1999.

"The Sovereign and the Stranger,"

J. Edkins, Nalini Persram and Veronique Pin-Fat. (eds.), Sovereignty and Subjectivity, Boulder. Col.: Lynne Reiner, 1998.

INSTITUIONAL/ INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP

I have held a large number of University offices at departmental, faculty and cross-faculty level. I am a member of a wide variety of national and international professional associations, including BISA and ISA. I lecture widely in the UK, Europe and the United States.

I have a reputation for intellectual and institutional leadership that broaches new intellectual agendas and inspires new levels of critical theoretical competency in relation to politics of security. I founded theInstitute for Cultural Research (ICR) at Lancaster and directed it for four years. I remain Co-Editor of its journal The Journal for Cultural Research. I was a founder member of The Society for European Philosophy (SEP), established its membership list and organised its first annual conference through ICR. I will be giving the Plenary Lecture (Terror and Contingency) to the first joint conference of the Forum for European Philosophyand The Society for European Philosophy at Reading University in September 2005.

In 2004 I founded the Lancaster-Aberystwyth Graduate Colloquium in Critical Theory, Post-structuralism and International Relations in collaboration with Professor Jenny Edkins from the Department of International Relations at Aberystwyth. The Colloquium is bi-annual and now attracts around 50 particpants including contributors from Canada, the US and Europe.

I also critically interrogate the re-problematisation of security through direct engagement with the policy and business communities. I do this via my membership of The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and The Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC), as well as through my contacts with the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, and the Defence Scientific and Technical Laboratories (Dstl).

Editorial Positions

Journals

Journal of Cultural Research, Co-Editor.

Foucault Studies, Editotrial Board

Language and Politics, Editorial Board

Book Series

Taking on the Political (Edinburgh/New York UP) International Editor

Current PhD Supervision

Caroline Croser Envisioning Battlespace in the 21st Century: A Critique.

Manav Guha Pure War: An Ontological Interrogation of Network-centric

Warfare.

Luis Lobos-Guerrero The Political Technology of Risk in the Security of Liberal

Governance.

Erdogan Sema Global War as Social Theory.

Maria Stoianova Narrating Politics and the Refugee

KEYNOTE/PLENARY LECTURES

2001-2005

International Keynote Lectures

Biopolitics of Security,

Distinguished Thinkers in Critical International Relations

Lecture. York University Center for International and

Security Studies, Toronto, Canada, 21st September, 2004.

Security, Life, Terror,

The Critical Theory Lecture, Critical Theory Institute, University of California Irvine, March 2004.

Governing Terror,

EU Framework 5 Research Project, in association with ISA, «European Liberty and

Security» (ELISE), Montreal, March 16th , 2004.

Governing Security,

Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 15th March

2004.

Civil Contingencies and National Resilience,

Wellington, Emergency Planning Office, New Zealand, November 27th 2003.

Governance, Terror and War,

Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.,

November, 30th 2003

The Polemical Politics of Jacques Rancière,

University of California, Los Angeles, October 2002 .

The Liberal Way of War,

Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., May 2002.

Becoming Political,

Richard Gordon Memorial Lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz , May 2001.

The State of (In)security,

CERI, Science-Po, Paris, September 2001

National Keynote Lectures

The Terror and Contingency,

Plenary Address, European Philosophy Forum/Society for European Philosophy, Joint Conference, Reading University, September 2005

Force of Transformation: Technic versus Messianic

Keynote Lecture, Derrida: Negotiating The Legacy, A Conference held in Memory of

the Thought of Jacques Derrida, Aberystwyth Post-International Group, University of

Wales, Gregynog Hall, 6-8 January, 2005.

Governing Terror,

Opening Address, Delivering Resilience: The Civil Contingency Act and Beyond.

The Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House, 19th, November 2004.

Security in the 21st century: Pascal to Descartes,

Keynote Lecture, Science and Technology Policies for the Anti-Terrorism Era, NATO

Advanced Research Workshop, PREST University of Manchester, 12-14th September,

2004.

Architectures of Security,

University of Durham, 29th May, 2004

Security, Life, Terror,

Inaugural Lecture, Critical and Cultural Politics Research Group, Department of

International Relations, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 3rd May, 2004.

Beyond Security,

Keynote Lecture, Security Threats in a Networked World. New Technologies, New

Challenges, Conference, The Royal Institute of International, Affairs, Chatham House,

London, 22-23rd March, 2004.

The Ignorant Statesman,

Fidelity to the Disagreement, Goldmiths, September, 2003.

Knowledge Resourcing for Civil Contingencies,

Conference on Critical National Infrastructure Modelling, Dstl, Farnborough, June

2003.

NetworkCentric Warfare,

Cambridge University, 30-31st July, 2003

Security, Networks and the Governance of Circulation,

The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, September, 17th 2003.

A Passion for the (Im)possible: Politics without Politics,

Critical Research in International Political Theory, Manchester University, 21

November, 2003.

Pre-Security: Futures in Fear,

Alternative Mobility Futures, Conference, Centre for Mobilities Research, University

of Lancaster, Conference, 9th- 10th January, 2004

Security and Civil Contingencies,

Nottingham Trent University, Centre for Research in Culture and Communication, 6th

February, 2004 .

CONFERENCES ORGANISED

2004-2005

ESRC SUPPORTED

During the course of my ESRC Research Project I initiated a programme of conferences and workshops at The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. These included:

27 May, 2003 Making Peace: Reconstruction and Global Governance

17-18 September, 2003 Complexity, Networks and Resilience

22-23 March, 2004 Security Threats in a Networked World

21-22 March, 2005 Protecting Critical Networks

19 November, 2004 Delivering Resilience: The Civil Contingency Act and

Beyond

Keynote speakers for these conferences and workshops included the following distinguished contributors from the policy and scientific communities: Sir David Omand, (Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator and Permanent Secretary Cabinet Office), Lord May of Oxford, (President of The Royal Society), The Right Honourable Beverly Hughes, MP, (Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism), Sir Kevin Tebbit, (Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence), Bruce Mann (Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office), and Alun Evans (Head of Civil Resilience Directorate, Office of The Deputy prime Minister). Other contributors came from the academic and business world.

NEW SECURITY ISSUES FORUM

In collaboration with my colleagues in The New Security Issues Forum at Lancaster:

17-19 July 2004 SecurityBytes: An International Conference on Security and

The Life Sciences.

(Keynote Speakers: Richard Doyle, Philadelphia; Katherine Hayles, UCLA, Brian Massumi, Concordia; and, Michael J. Shapiro, Honolulu).

The conference had 5 streams, was attended by 110 delegates nad has generated two edited collections.

11 May New Securities/New Threats, International Colloquium.

(Keynote Speakers: Thomas Bierstekker, Director and Henry R. Luce Professor, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; James Der Derian, Professor of International Studies, The Watson Institue for International Studies, Brown University; Stuart Schwartstein, State Department and CSIS Washington)